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We welcome four new venues to Artwalk - St Luke's Episcopal Church, Jax Joon, Giddy Up Burgers and Greens, and opening on December 12 Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop. There are many group shows happening at Monster Art and Clothing, Push/Pull, Annie's Art and Frame, BallardWorks, and a plethora of artists at Blowing Sands Glass Studio. Remember, BuildingC is back on the ArtWalk and lots of artists will have their studios open for holiday shopping. Check them out and pick up a gift for yourself!

Rachel Wirfs will be demonstrating the art of Pyrography at an Artist Reception from 6-9 pm at Market Street Shoes.Pyrography or pyrogravure is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker. It is also known as pokerwork or wood burning. The term means "writing with fire", from the Greek pur (fire) and graphos (writing).Market Street Shoes2232 NW Market Street

10 years ago Satoko started her textile journey with a 3 year
advanced handicraft degree from HV School in Stockholm Sweden. She believes
that weaving, being one of the oldest fabric techniques, should be honored with
high quality natural materials. Simple and classic designs with good natural
materials is the foundation of all her works.

HappyTime Apocalypse is an art collective that celebrates the humor in the many ways our world may end. The goal of HappyTime is to create an artistic escape from the horrors of the world that surround us. We want to infiltrate your mind with a balance of dark and light, happy and evil, illuminating the opposing forces of humanity within us all. We create our own reality and as a group, we hope to create an inspiring and thought-provoking display for everyone to enjoy. When we go down, we will go down reveling in our experience until the end, and deeply appreciating the beautiful, humorous, macabre and awe-inspiring fragments of life floating all around us!

Karen Klee-Atlin will be working on her prints at Blue House and Yellow Dog Studio this Saturday. Come and see her latest prints and watch as she demonstrates the woodcut and collagraph process on her press. Karen will have framed and un-framed prints for sale and there will also be a great selection of book bags, purses and napkins made by designer Sara Kelley.

Karen will be offering art classes at her studio in drawing, painting and printmaking for children, teens and adults this fall. You can contact her at Karen Klee-Atlin for more information.

Join Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop on the Grand Opening day & the Ballard ArtWalk this Saturday, December 12th!

You know that one person on your Christmas list who's always extremely hard to shop for? Ballyhoo's got you covered! Endless unique, obscure and fun gifts that your friends and family will seriously love.

For the ArtWalk, Brandon Vosika is this months featured artist with 29 pieces priced to sell right off the wall. The ArtWalk reception will be from 6 to 9 PM - Come say hello!

St. Luke's Epicopal Church joins the Second Saturday ArtWalk with art by Rebekah Slavin. All proceeds will benefit LIHI, the Low Income Housing Institute.
There will be music in the historic Chapel, and refreshments in the Undercroft.

Self Portraits--Original Selfies is the theme of our December show featuring artwork by our Tenants and Friends. This promises to be an amusing and amazing exhibit with all portraiture styles represented from cubist to realist. How do we picture ourselves? After all, that face looking back at us in the mirror is not how we appear to others. The mirror reverses our image, so if the artist paints his/her self portrait while looking in a mirror, it is not the face his/her friends are viewing. If the artist paints from a photo, it might or might not be the same view as others see. Come and consider the likeness of these personal works presented for your enjoyment.

Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open for the Art Walk Saturday, December 12, 2015. Open 6:00-9:00 pm.
Families with kids welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th Avenue. Includes painting, wood working, sculpture, wearable fiber art, encaustics, print making and more, all under one roof.

Images of horses and the people who work, play and exist with them that are meant to recall images, memories & emotions when viewed by anyone who is familiar with horses or not.
Be sure to check out some of the beautiful images on Karen's website.
The show runs through the end of December.

It's looking to be a great ArtWalk on Saturday, November 14. Ballard welcomes a new gallery, Push Pull (they don't really open until November 22, but we get a sneak peek Saturday), Building C, longtime home to many studios, is back on board with a chance to visit many artists. There are the original selfies at BallardWorks, also known as self portraits, and beautiful cats done with ink at Market Street Shoes. So get your boots and raincoat and visit the venues.

The person who was the contact for the Second Saturday ArtWalk from BuildingC left, and they fell by the wayside. They recently got back in touch, and BuidingC is alive and well, full of numerous artists of different media, many of them there to greet you during the ArtWalk, November 14, 2015.
Enter the side door (behind the dark car in the center of the picture) at 4857 14th Avenue NW.

Our
first night in Ballard! We won't be officially open until the 22nd, but we are
open for the November art walk. Come see Beautiful Trash: An Art Tribute to
Budget Cinema and get a preview of our new space. It's right around the corner
from Ocho and Hotel Albatross where 24th & Shilshole meet at Market.

Karen Klee-Atlin will be working on her prints at Blue House and Yellow Dog Studio this Saturday. Come and see her latest prints and watch as she demonstrates the woodcut and collagraph process on her press. Karen will have framed and un-framed prints for sale and there will also be a great selection of book bags, purses and napkins made by designer Sara Kelley.

Karen will be offering art classes at her studio in drawing, painting and printmaking for children, teens and adults this fall. You can contact her at Karen Klee-Atlin for more information.

Terry Reed, a commercial and fine art photographer in Seattle’s vibrant photography scene, will exhibit a series of new photographs this November. The group of 18 images is selected from a larger body of work created during the past year.

All 18 photographs seen in the show were first published on Instagram. Reed was one of 12 photographers from around the world who contributed to Stories and Pictures, a recent Instagram - Tumblr project that married storytelling with photographs. Nine pieces in the current show come from that project and showcase Reed’s writing and image-making talent.

Reed, who lives in Ballard, joined Instagram in 2013. He’s connected with far flung photographer friends. And, he’s found a passionate community of shooters from around the world who are struck by the quality of his images. “Instagram has been a nice surprise,” he said. “It’s been invigorating, there’s a lot of interesting people doing great work.

Ryan Henry Ward's vision of creating primitive images with a dream-like, surreal quality is awake with life in this show.The natural rawness of the painting process shows through his balanced, bright, and whimsical work.

His work has a combined feeling of neo pop and neo primitivism yet somehow lands in a genre of its own. He has been a muralist in Seattle since 2008 and has created the largest public body of work in the history of the city.

Agnes Bodor was born in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. After finishing Secondary School of Visual Arts she went to the Eotvos Lorand Science University and graduated as a biologist. She completed her Phd at the Semmelweis University School of Doctoral Studies. Currently she is working as neurobiologist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and painting is her hobby. Her favorite materials are the ink and the watercolor.

Self Portraits--Original Selfies is the theme of our
November show featuring artwork by our Tenants. This promises to be an amusing
and amazing exhibit with all portraiture styles represented from cubist to
realist. How do we picture ourselves? After all, that face looking back at us
in the mirror is not how we appear to others. The mirror reverses our image, so
if the artist paints his/her self portrait while looking in a mirror, it is not
the face his/her friends are viewing. If the artist paints from a photo, it
might or might not be the same view as others see. Come and consider the
likeness of these personal works presented for your enjoyment.

Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open
for the Art Walk Saturday, November 14, 2015. Open 6:00-9:00 pm.

Families with kids welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd
floor doors on 30th Avenue. Includes painting, wood working, sculpture,
wearable fiber art, encaustics, print making and more, all under one roof.

Abstraction gets me. There’s an immediacy to it. You don’t know what it is, what it “means” or what it is trying to convey for sure, but you feel it. It works outside the bounds of language. It cuts through the struggles entangled inside the modern human condition by bringing you back to your soul. Reminding you of you. Steeping you in emotion, knowing and connection.

Even if you don’t “get it,” it gets you.

I tried for a long time to figure out abstract art before I realized that to understand it is to feel it. Emotion understands it, not intellect.

Making these connections, to how we feel, what we want, what brings us joy. Well, its the whole point.
For me, a lot of these connections are made through the process of painting.

If you’d like to learn more about me, my art or experience along the creative path, visit my blog at Tara Flores or find me on social media (@tarafloresart).

October is a great ArtWalk month. The darkness outside makes coming in to see art all the more special. The Bergschrund has another great mountain photographer, Mark Orr, on display.
Lina Raymond continues at Horseshoe, and Market Street Shoes is showcasing photography from Bulgaria, plus a full assortment of new fall shoes. Enjoy!

Saturday evening October 10th, Ballard Art Walk will
feature photos at Market Street Shoes taken in Bulgaria by Tom Deering.
Come enjoy food and drink while viewing a spectacular collection of
photos showcasing the culture and faces of Bulgaria - costumes, dancers,
musicians, and architecture. The photos will be on display and for sale
throughout the entire month of October.Market Street Shoes
2232 NW Market Street

Fresh out of a Southern California high school, I made my living as a window display artist, floral designer, and wig stylist before doing a 12-year stint as an actress on primetime television. While my son was in high school, I left acting and remodeled houses. When my son left the nest, I dove in with all that was in me as the inventor and founder of a non-dairy ice cream product line. When my popular product and busy, happy little company were confronted with an unavoidable corporate struggle, we won the battle but lost the war (that my company did not survive).

Unfortunately, my struggle to cope with that loss was only the first in a series of events and challenges that led to a lost decade. As I began to heal, I began painting again, and it was through art that I finally recovered. I now keep my life as simple as possible and I’ve never been more at peace.

Karen
Klee-Atlin will be working on her prints at Blue House and Yellow Dog Studio
this Saturday. Come and see her latest prints and watch as she demonstrates the
woodcut and collagraph process on her press. Karen will have framed and
un-framed prints for sale and there will also be a great selection of book
bags, purses and napkins made by designer Sara Kelley.

Karen
will be offering art classes at her studio in drawing, painting and printmaking
for children, teens and adults this fall. You can contact her at Karen Klee-Atlin for more information.

Joseph
Brooks is a Pacific Northwest fine artist and illustrator residing in Seattle.
He has lived and shown work in and around Seattle for the past 9 years. Joseph
is a member of TSIO in The Greenwood Collective. He has displayed work during
West Seattle Artwalk, Rat City Art City, Phinneywood ArtUp, Georgetown's Art
Attack, Blitz Capitol Hill, Fremont First Friday, SDC 2nd Thursday, and at
various Coffee Shops, Music venues, and Galleries in the Seattle Metropolitan
area.

Two Viewpoints comprises the works of Russel Coxen and Craig Dunstan-McGrail.
Coxen presents his current series of encaustic paintings "Exploring Hidden
Landscapes". Dunstan-McGrail presents "Sequences and Motion",
two groups of pigmented ink prints, the EMP Series and the Elemental Series.
These artists share a love of color and use of photography as inspiration. Yet
like every artist, they observe the world from each his own unique point of view,
resulting in very different images. Come and enjoy seeing our world through
these engaging viewpoints at the opening reception Saturday, October 10, 6-9
pm.

Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open for the Art Walk
Saturday, October 10, 2015. Open 6:00-9:00 pm.
Families with kids welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th
Avenue. Includes painting, wood working/sculpture, wearable fiber art,
encaustics, print making and more, all under one roof.

Juliet Tada is a practicing
artist in Seattle, Washington creating drawings, paintings, installation, and
mixed media works. She enjoys experimenting with chance medium, texture, and
three-dimensional components while painting on a horizontal plane. As a result,
a viewer gets to interact with a bird’s eye perspective at eye-level.

Charcoal, ink, and graphite
make up the main media for her work. She enjoys using charcoal for its ability
to be multifaceted in texture and gradient. She uses a chromatic scale, which
simulates a timeless elegance. The gesture, thickness, and structure of a line
encompass the overall expression of her artwork. Each piece of art
manifests itself through the process in which it is created.

Downward momentum - in the form
of splatter or winding pathways shaped by water droplets - becomes the starting
point for most of her creations. Allowing a material to organically move or
react to its environment causes an image of fluidity that is gentle to the
eye. Using water and wet solvents demonstrates the power an element has
over a composition. Water transforms and reshapes a medium within a piece,
echoing its effect on the earth.

Also included in her show will
be abstract renderings of the human figure. A trending beauty appears among
her female representations. The eccentric use of hair acts as a staple
characteristic within each drawing. Gold appears as an accent in her
current body of work. A touch of sparkle against a black and white contour
mimics the moon kissing the darkened sky.

Shauna Tuey is a self taught visual artist born and raised in Seattle, Washington.

She uses a wide variety of mediums for her paintings including melted crayons, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, and color pencils. She is constantly exploring new creative outlets and integrating new techniques into her work.

Her designs are inspired by the world around her as well as by other artists in the community. In the early stages of her work, she explored abstract designs which eventually evolved into more concrete ideas. It's been enjoyable to watch her style develop as she began to research mythological stories and sacred geometry. It became her goal to not only capture the images in her head but to breathe life back into the stories that she reads.

Her focus is never on one technique for too long as she finds the exploration of the unknown too appealing to settle down in a particular medium; this gives her work a sense of blooming as she changes and grows as an individual. Although she can't commit to a medium, there is an unchanging tone to her work which enhances the organic beauty she perceives with a whimsical lightness. She is truly an adaptable artist looking to bring the best out in her creations. Whether it's painting, silk screening, dance or baking she always finds a way to put her heart and soul into what she's making.

The act of
sewing colors of fabric together to create pattern is an old and worthy act
traditionally done by women out of necessity- some say a “labor of love” to
keep families warm when they sleep. I
have always been attracted to patch work maybe because my mother is a quilter
and I grew up surrounded by color and pattern.
As a child I remember making projects of 9-square patch work pillows and
I also took needlepoint lessons. The act
of arranging color into patterns is my passion.
I am most influenced by the African-American tradition of multiple
pattern quilts. The quilts are usually
divided into blocks of a repeat pattern; however each block is uniquely
interpreted and rarely contains straight lines.
These quilts exemplify the West African principle of protective multiple
patterning. Evil spirits would have to
decode the complex mixture of many patterns before they could do any harm to
the user. The idea of a physical quilt
used for spiritual protection has influenced me greatly.

“Patch Worked” isan ongoing
series of work that explores and celebrates color and pattern created from an
everyday object. I paint brown paper, cut it and sew it
back together in interpretive unique patterns.
I use recycled paper bags because
it is a way to recycle the paper and “make something from nothing” a theme that
has inspired my art making. This work is a contemporary look at the
traditional craft of patchwork.

My paper balls
are a reflection and influence of Japanese culture and an appreciation of a
simple object made beautiful. In Japan
paper is a national treasure. Many
objects, especially those for children, are made from paper like kites, fans,
and even paper balloons. Paper is
temporary material that brings play and beauty to one’s life.

Leslie
Ulrich's work will be shown along with pieces by glass artists Scott Darlington
and Patricia Davidson August 8th - October 7th.

If you went to Horseshoe in August to see "Salmon Bay from Fremont Peak", return this month
for Lina Raymond's newest painting, "Housekeeping Off Seaview Avenue". Also on display are paintings from her Ballard Avenue series.

A wide variety of visual art by 11 artists and the work of one author are presented at BallardWorks with an opening reception during the Ballard ArtWalk Saturday September 12, 2015, 6:00-9:00 pm. Visual artists include Katherine L Wright, William Hook, Joanne Shellan, Dionne Haroutunian, Vicki Platts-Brown, Marilee Dicks, Patricia Tuton, Sandy Bricel Miller, Signe Davis, Lisa Snow Lady, and Garrett Sweany. The author is Rebecca Ross who has written "Being Home: The Art of Belonging Wherever You Are".

The theme of this exhibit is that home is more than the house we live in, it's a state of mind and of being.These creative expressions portray the emotion of feeling at home as each artist experiences it.

How do their experiences compare with your own interpretations? Are you at home in your skin? In your office? In your garden? In your home? Is home truly where the heart is or is it any place you hang your hat?

Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open for the Art Walk Saturday, September 12, 2015. Open 6:00-9:00 pm.
Families with kids welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th Avenue. Includes painting, wood working/sculpture, wearable fiber art, encaustics, print making and more, all under one roof.

Jerry Kaufman is a third generation photographer.The theme of his work is renewal - new beginnings designed to create a sense of healing and well-being in the viewer.

He makes photographs in the spirit of the Impressionists working with light, color and emotion. Jerry strives to create a painterly feel in his images - whether in nature or urban settings. His vivid black and white "reversals" printed on metal spark near universal curiosity.

Last fall I came across some collages I made many years ago and thought them pretty cool. So I picked up a magazine and started to look for interesting images. At first the pieces were therapeutic in theme as I was (and still am, of course) dealing with the loss of my Most Wonderful Husband the year before. But to my surprise, what emerged were not all images of darkness and grief, but rather images of healing, of moving on, even images laughing at sorrow. It seems my unconscious mind was way ahead of me.

And it’s that spontaneous, intuitive, aspect of collage that has fascinated me ever since. As a painter I always know what image I want to capture on canvas (and sometimes struggle mightily to make that happen.) As a writer I know the basic story before I begin. But as a collage artist I am always surprised---and often delighted----by what emerges.

All the elements of these pieces are cut from magazines and books I find at thrift stores. Each usually begins with a single image I find intriguing. I then look for its “home”--- a landscape or skyscape or other objects that seem to work with it--- and somewhere in that process a “meaning” of some sort emerges. Some pieces come together very quickly. The bits and pieces of others may hang around on my work table for a week or two (or more) as I try this, that, and the other before finding whatever it is that’s needed to complete the idea of the final piece.

I hope some of these will make you smile. Some may make you sad. Whatever, I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I (and my subconscious) enjoyed making them!

Two Exhibits, Get to Work & Art Works, are up at BallardWorks with an opening reception during the Ballard ArtWalk Saturday August 8, 2015, 6:00-9:00 pm.

The exhibit will run through August 28.

Get to Work features new prints by Phil Stoiber filling the 3rd floor exhibition areas. Art Works, Fifty pieces by Family and Friends, fills the second floor exhibition areas. It is especially interesting to see works that are inspired by another artist's work and a sampling of work collected by that same artist. What inspires, the products of inspiration and what that artist values in others' works is all part of the mystery of creativity.

Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open for the Art Walk Saturday, August 8, 2015. Open 6:00-9:00 pm.
Families with kids welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th Avenue. Includes painting, wood working/sculpture, wearable fiber art, encaustics, print making and more, all under one roof.BallardWorks
2856 NW Market StreetPhil StoiberRobert Hardgraves

If you saw Lina Raymond's "Salmon Bay from Fremont Peak" last month at Horseshoe, you'll want to return this month for "Housekeeping Off Seaview Avenue". Also on display are some of her Ballard Avenue series.